Personal favorites from the Cycladic Antiquities include two parian marble figurines of musicians discovered in the same grave on Keros. The seated Harpist of Keros holds a stringed instrument (probably some kind of lyre or harp). The standing Flutist plays the double flute. Both are from the Early Cycladic Period, ca. 2800-2300 BCE.
From the National Archaeological Museum in Athens exhibition description:
The ‘harpist of Keros’, of parian marble.
Seated in an elegant throne, holds a stringed instrument, lyre or harp (trigonon). Musicians are mainly ‘harpists’ and rarely play wind instruments. Elaborate three-dimensional statuettes were carved in organized workshops equipped with bronze tools.
Numerous artifacts of ritual significance (marble figurines and vessels) have been found on the island of Keros.
The flutist and the harpist are thought to come from the same grave on Keros (3908)
Early Cycladic II, 2800-2300 BC